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Vogue: What categories in fashion are you excited about right now?I’m really into ready-to-wear at the moment because it’s just the core of what the house stands for.Vogue: My colleague José Criales-Unzueta recently wrote how “menswear learnt to embrace the internet’s thirst”, noting that some houses now focus their efforts on the red carpet and skip men’s runways in favour of co-ed shows. What are your thoughts?I think you can’t show the breadth of work on a red carpet. The red carpet, the actors are going where they want to, they don’t want to stand out too much, they just…

Copenhagen Fashion Week’s (CPHFW) evolution continues. Some of its big names may be skipping this season — former tentpole Ganni shows no appetite to move back from Paris, while Saks Potts and (Di)vision have closed — but there is plenty to fill the gaps, with the schedule feeling more varied as a result.The Autumn/Winter 2025 edition kicks off on Monday 27 January with 27 shows and eight presentations on the schedule — roughly on par with last year — and a host of events. Among the returning CPHFW big hitters are Rotate, Baum und Pferdgarten and Gestuz. Remain, which like Rotate…

This article first appeared on Vogue.With the winds of change — or gale-force gossip, rather — sweeping so many fashion houses, it falls to Peter Copping to make the first of several hugely anticipated debuts of the year. His inaugural show for Lanvin takes to the runway on Sunday, 26 January. The twinkly-eyed British designer, whose optimistic sense of humour is allied with all kinds of professional competencies, has a surprise or two up his sleeve. Appropriately enough for a house showing on the bridge day between the Paris Men’s shows and the haute couture schedule, Copping is about to…

Disney star, chart-topping singer, award-winning actress, producer, cooking show host, mental health advocate, beauty mogul, philanthropist: no wonder Selena Gomez is the most-followed woman on Instagram, with over 422 million followers.And lately, she’s been on a tear. Her starring role in quirky mob film Emilia Pérez has already earned her a Golden Globe nomination, with a potential Oscars nomination to follow. And amid the awards season buzz, last month, Gomez announced her engagement to music producer Benny Blanco. Announced on Instagram with a photo of a pavé-set marquise-cut diamond ring (a subtle nod to her song ‘Good For You’, in…

During that time there was friction between me and Rick. I was going to quit. I don’t remember if I quite said “It’s him or me,” but maybe I did. So he left, and we didn’t speak for years. In the end it became quite fun being arch-enemies. Everybody called us ‘Good Rick’ and ‘Bad Rick’. It was an amusing rivalry. After Rick left, Michi stayed, and as well as working on the men’s collection while it lasted, I worked with her.I do look back very fondly on it this time. I remember before I moved into Michèle’s house on…

Ahead of Milan Fashion Week Men’s, Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (CNMI) president Carlo Capasa asked the fashion community to “bring the energy” this season, despite the challenges of the luxury slowdown. Brands delivered: Jordanluca staged a surprise fashion show wedding; Prada threw out the rule book; Dunhill threw an opulent, star-studded soirée; and maximalist trends from bold outerwear to fur emerged as key for the season.Here are the key takeaways from Milan Fashion Week Men’s Autumn/Winter 2025.

Back in 2017, it was something of a shock for the New York-based industry to see Ralph Lauren dress Trump. The designer had donated $13 million to the Smithsonian Museum of National History to restore the star-spangled banner at the behest of former President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton. Online, the hashtag #BoycottRalphLauren started trending on Twitter (now X). “The Presidential Inauguration is a time for the United States to look our best to the world,” the label said at the time. “It was important to us to uphold and celebrate the tradition of creating iconic American style…

However, Mintel’s Bartelme warns that companies run the risk of isolating consumers by going too overboard on labelling. “A decade ago, everything was labelled as gluten-free, including bottled water. That was silly and unnecessary,” she says. That’s not to say it’s unimportant for consumers to understand what’s in their food. Rather, when companies label products as being suitable for every currently trending eating pattern, they run the risk of turning off consumers who are not interested in them, she says. “There’s a risk that labelling something as suitable for [weight loss drug] GLP-1 could make some consumers wonder if that…

Formichetti previously founded youthful luxury streetwear brand Formy, known for dark palettes and its association with rappers like Young Thug and Travis Scott. But he decided to close the brand in 2022. Unlike PDF, Formy consisted of more basic streetwear pieces, focused on logos. “My first brand was an important part of my journey, but I felt like I had outgrown it creatively,” he explains. “Closing it gave me the opportunity to start fresh with PDF and create something that felt more aligned with where I am now.”All of PDF’s garments are developed in a village called Marotta, close to…

As consumers focus more on quality, brands are exploring ways to communicate their craftsmanship, heritage, innovation and cultural relevance. This week, the exhibitors at Italian trade show Pitti Uomo rewrote the playbook, as the fair evolves to become more interactive and communicate the stories behind the clothes.Guess Jeans presented a vast exhibition and showroom space in the fair’s main piazza to demonstrate its AirWash denim treatment, which claims to reduce waste and water consumption. Throughout the space, the walls told the Guess Jeans rebrand story and broke down the composition of garments.“Europe is by far our biggest market and Pitti…